Today, I lost power. That didn't stop my house alarm from running on battery, loudly informing me in a British accent, "AC power disconnected. BEEP. AC power disconnected. BEEP." It's been going on for 5 hours and the battery takes a special screwdriver to remove. One we don't have. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, the power in my village went out. This caused the back-up battery powered alarm to go off. Nobody in the house even knew our alarm worked, let alone how to make it stop. It's been going off for over an hour now. FML
Today, the power went out. Thankfully, it was early in the morning so I should've been able to sleep through it. Then I realized I have an impossible time sleeping during power outages. FML
Today, I was making dinner when my smoke alarm started going off. I opened all the windows and waved a towel underneath it. After ten minutes, I realized the alarm wasn't reacting to the food. Its battery was dying. FML
Today, I'm staying in a hotel. The power went out while I was having a shower. So I waited for it to come back on, until an announcement came over the fire alarm, "Due to generating failure, the power will be off for the rest of the night. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused, and have a good night." FML
Today, during a storm-related power failure, I jerry-rigged an inverter from my car to supply the essentials. In doing so, I managed to blow up the fridge, smoke and all. The power came back on 5 minutes later. FML
Today, I kept hearing a weird buzzing sound in my apartment. I turned off everything, unplugged appliances, and was on the verge of calling maintenance. Turns out, it was my electric toothbrush vibrating in my suitcase… for three hours. FML
Today, on vacation with family, the power goes off in the middle of the night. I wake up as the A/C starts dripping on my head. No air, wet pillow, can't sleep, but I decide to tough it out until morning rather than wake everyone. In the morning, I discovered my sister had hit the breaker because she couldn't find the light switch. FML
Today, the power went out at work. As everyone left the building to go home, the owner came in to inform me that, since the phones were on a battery back up, I would be staying to man them. The phones rang 2 times in the 4 hours I sat in the dark by myself. Both times were telemarketers. FML
Today, my smoke alarm started chirping at 3 a.m. I replaced the battery, reset it, and got back into bed. Five minutes later, it chirped again. I searched for the source before realizing it was my roommate's alarm clock. FML
Today, my neighbors left for their nine month excursion, and armed their security system. One of the features is a loud series of three beeps every three seconds, 24 hours a day. I can hear it, clear as a bell, throughout my entire house. FML
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Top comments
MrBoredGuy 1
Go buy the right screwdriver? Wouldn't take anyone else 5 hours to figure that out
baconstrips 12
Just smash the thing to bits
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Comments (214)
bannedforlife 0
One word: Hammer.
SuperPandaSwagg 10
Leave! Go to Chuck E Cheese's or something.
SadinSherman 16
This is the plot to an episode of Friends also.
phermes1 0
That's why God created hammers.
Teegsxx 16
Excuse me, but there isn't such a thing as a British accent. English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish, maybe, but not "British".
velvetwings 8
I posted this. During the hurricane when the road was closed, so getting a screwdriver wasn't really possible. If security alarms were easy to remove batteries from, they wouldn't really do their job. I turned the volume down and went upstairs, but damn was that thing annoying.
Catie13 0
that special screwdriver can easily be replaced by a hammer
Harlequin073 6
Hulk smash?
Mauskau 36
So in the UK everything has American accents, in the USA they have British accents? Can we swap :(
gigi03 5
I bet this happened at night right?